title: SuperScent--a database of flavors and scents.
abstract: Volatiles are efficient mediators of chemical communication acting universally as attractant, repellent or warning signal in all kingdoms of life. Beside this broad impact volatiles have in nature, scents are also widely used in pharmaceutical, food and cosmetic industries, so the identification of new scents is of great industrial interest. Despite this importance as well as the vast number and diversity of volatile compounds, there is currently no comprehensive public database providing information on structure and chemical classification of volatiles. Therefore, the database SuperScent was established to supply users with detailed information on the variety of odor components. The version of the database presented here comprises the 2D/3D structures of approximately 2100 volatiles and around 9200 synonyms as well as physicochemical properties, commercial availability and references. The volatiles are classified according to their origin, functionality and odorant groups. The information was extracted from the literature and web resources. SuperScent offers several search options, e.g. name, Pubchem ID number, species, functional groups, or molecular weight. SuperScent is available online at: http://bioinformatics.charite.de/superscent.
authors.affiliation: Structural Bioinformatics Group, Institute of Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics, Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Mathias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dunkel
authors.forename: Ulrike
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: Swantje
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Struck
authors.forename: Lena
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Berger
authors.forename: Bjoern
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gruening
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hossbach
authors.forename: Ines S
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Jaeger
authors.forename: Uta
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Effmert
authors.forename: Birgit
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Piechulla
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Eriksson
authors.forename: Jette
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Knudsen
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Preissner
mesh_terms: D016208:Databases, Factual; D009812:Odorants; D055549:Volatile Organic Compounds / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D055549:Volatile Organic Compounds